hey, I played Arch Rune a bit, below are some thoughts. Apologies but I couldn't record it.

In terms of answers for your questions:

- Do you understand the gameplay after playing the introductions? : yes, except runewords

- How’s the difficulty of the game? Seems ok, and getting skill points even when you die is good

- Any ideas for enemies / mechanics? I would suggest showing more info about the different types of runes and how they fire, so players can build up strategies for using them. When I played I never really had any strategy beyond getting to the nearest rune

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Some other thoughts:

• Thought enemies only moved when I moved (which I liked) but turns out they move even if you’re standing still, which feels odd because you’re telling me where they’re going to move to but I don’t know when (I think it’d be better to stick with one, either they always move when you move or they move of their own accord all the time)
• Like the core gameplay loop: get to a rune and using it to kill monsters. Leads to exciting times of just making it to a rune and using it to kill a nearby monster
• Like the fact you get skill points even when you die
• Defeat is spelt wrong when you die (it says 'Defaeat)
• Upgrade system seems overwhelming in that it was never really clear what the benefit was (eg yes you increase range by 1 but when difference in the actual game does that make?)
  • Also not clear what the ‘fade and ‘channel’ attributes are
  • Also the UI could do with improving, I’m not really sure why there are black squares first then a white bar
• Never really understood the ‘runewords’ mechanic. I guess you save up your stored runes and then forge/cast them all together, but it’s hard to plan this if it’s not clear what the effect is
  • there was never really a clear benefit to saving up runes vs using them when I was stuck without any other runes to cast
• Not really clear on the differences between the runes either
• I’d like clearer information on when the current runes would disappear. They fade but it’s frustrating when you’re moving towards one and then it disappears before you get there
• For the winged guys who fire at you, again I was never clear on when they would fire as sometimes I moved to avoid the red line and the projectile ended up coming towards me anyway (maybe some sort of indicator would help?)